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FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2021, file photo, Wisconsin Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, left, talks with Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, during the first 2021-22 legislative session in the Assembly Chambers at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has issued a new statewide mask order an hour after the Republican-controlled Legislature voted to repeal his previous mandate on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. The Democrat Evers said in a video message Thursday that his priority is keeping people safe and that wearing a mask was the most basic way to do that.
The state Senate is scheduled to take up more than twenty bills in a floor session Tuesday in a jam-packed day at the state Capitol preceding Gov. Tony Ever’s budget address in the evening.
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The state Senate is scheduled to take up more than twenty bills in a floor session Tuesday in a jam-packed day at the state Capitol preceding Gov. Tony Ever’s budget address in the evening. Many of the bills are reintroduced from the 2019-2020 session ending early last year, but several are comprised of key Covid-related measures after passing their committee.
Wisconsin s mask mandate remains in place and the push to repeal it is on hold. Continuing Coverage: Coronavirus in WisconsinThe state Assembly delayed its vote to end the mandate, saying new information had come to light. I hate being caught by surprise. We usually don t have that happen, Assembly speaker Robin Vos said. After delaying Thursday s session by more than four hours, Vos announced the Republican-led Assembly would postpone its scheduled vote to repeal Gov. Tony Evers emergency health order and mask mandate.The reason? The lawmakers were caught off guard by news from Legislative Fiscal Bureau that by ending the emergency health order, Wisconsin would lose nearly $50 million a month in Federal Emergency Foodshare funding, impacting nearly 250,000 families in need. It s not about masks, it s about money, Hunger Task Force Executive Director Sherri Tussler said.Tussler was the first to warn that lawmakers may be overlooking the fallout from ending the health order